Awards and Recognitions

Events and Speaking Engagements

Trucking Leadership Symposium

Missouri Trucking Spring Safety Conference

Annual Safety Seminar, Missouri Trucking Association

ATA Management and Exhibition

Ted Perryman is widely regarded as one of Missouri’s preeminent trial lawyers. He has been named one of Missouri’s Best Lawyers and is recognized by his peers as a Super Lawyer. For over 30 years the mainstay of his practice is the trial of personal injury and insurance cases.

Ted is perhaps best known for his role as a leading advocate and defense attorney for the trucking industry. Not only does he represent trucking companies and their drivers, he is a driver himself. He actively holds a Class A license to operate tractor-trailers in the State of Missouri (CDL). Ted serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Missouri Trucking Association and is active in various committees of the American Trucking Association and the Illinois Trucking Association. Through Ted's role in the Missouri Trucking Association he has been on several trips with fellow members making calls on Congress to advocate on behalf of truckers. As a trial lawyer on behalf of motor carriers, he has taken over 100 personal injury cases to verdict, many of which involved serious trucking accidents.

Ted’s trial practice also includes defending insurance companies. During the past few years his primary focus has been complex coverage litigation. Recent cases include the successful defense of a “pollution exclusion” avoiding a multi-million dollar asbestos claim and a favorable settlement on a contested construction defect coverage dispute. Ted counsels his insurance clients regarding the avoidance of extra-contractual liability (bad faith) which is prevalent in the “judicial hellholes” in which he regularly practices.

Ted made his mark in Missouri as a trial lawyer in the area of toxic tort litigation. He successfully defended Northeastern Pharmaceutical Company which resulted in a defense verdict after a six month trial where the several claimants alleged numerous health problems due to dioxin exposure. He recently obtained a very favorable settlement for his client where hundreds of claimants alleged lead poisoning from a local lead smelter. He has been an active participant in the defense of asbestos claims in both Madison and St. Clair Counties.

Ted is a member to many prestigious trial organizations such as the Council on Litigation Management, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, International Association of Defense Counsel and the Trucking Industry Defense Association. He regularly gives presentations to the trucking and insurance industries on reducing exposure and evaluating claims. In 2010 Ted was appointed to the Board of the Missouri Trucking Association.